Word: comfortably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have taken comfort in the fact it would be hard to find a less murderous Communist than Ambassador Sokolnikov. Born in 1888, son of a moderately well-to-do bourgeois family, he was exiled for socialist tendencies, went to Paris, where he graduated from the Sorbonne. After the Revolution he returned to Russia, in 1918 was an editorial writer on Pravda, now the Soviet's official mouthpiece. Despite his bourgeois background, he led a Soviet army in Turkestan against counter revolutionists, then became Minister of the Treasury and in 1928 head of the Soviet oil syndicate. In choosing...
...revenge: the Mexican consulate and border station at Laredo were closed, with a prospective loss in trade to Laredo citizens of $30,000 for every day the barrier remained closed (see p. 14). It was announced that they would remain closed "until respect and comfort are guaranteed Mexican officials passing through Laredo...
...been a farmer, a soldier in Russia's wars, killing many people. He had gone to the monastery to be purified but had found too much comfort (two meals per day, four hours of sleep, eight hours of prayer or meditation, the rest work). So he had climbed the mountain to be alone...
From doctors' offices, from laboratories and universities during the year 1929 issued many a new discovery, many a new comfort for mankind. The epitome...
Yale apparently is too close to being a one-man team for comfort. Harvard has no outstanding star like Booth, but it has a well-balanced batch of material and has no outstanding weakness, now that the Michigan game has proved that the line can function. One defect is that this Harvard team lacks the finesse...